Janmaat can be a future captain of Newcastle United

DARYL Janmaat has been earmarked as a future Newcastle United captain – with the club lacking leadership on AND off the field.

Stand-in skipper Moussa Sissoko was sent off against Liverpool at Anfield on Monday night.

And club captain Fabricio Coloccini has just served a three-match ban for his dismissal at Everton last month.

Coloccini will return to the starting XI on Sunday for the Premier League home game against Tottenham Hotspur.

Janmaat – who is NOT one of the club’s two vice-captains – is the choice of many supporters to wear the captain’s armband given the ill-discipline of Coloccini and Sissoko, whose suspensions have proved costly to the struggling club.

Head coach John Carver, frustrated to lose midfielder Sissoko for two games, feels the captaincy needs to be looked at in the summer by the club, which is still to secure its top-flight status for another season.

“It’s something that has to be addressed by the football club,” said Carver.

“We need to give the captaincy to somebody who is responsible, who is a leader. The players will follow a leader, and they have to have discipline on and off the pitch.

“I know it’s changed now – you ask anybody in any football club. It’s all changed now, but that’s how it was and that’s how it should be, in my opinion.

“I shouldn’t have to go in there and manage that dressing room – that’s what your captains are there for – but there are not many of them out there now. We do things differently.

“But they have to lead by example. When you are the captain of a football club, then you have to do things right.”

Asked if he would consider making Janmaat, a fierce competitor and vocal player, skipper next season if he was to be given the head coach job on a permanent basis, Carver added: “I’d be tempted, yes, because he’s a proper leader.